CCN 2025

8th Annual Conference on

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

August 12-15, 2025

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Join Us for CCN 2025

Mark your calendar! The 8th annual conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience will be held at the University of Amsterdam from Tuesday, August 12 through Friday, August 15, 2025.  See the Schedule of Events for details.

Registration is Open

Register by July 15 to receive Standard Registration Pricing.

Log In to your CCN Account and select a registration option. Attendance to the Social Event can be paid with your meeting registration. You can also sign up for Community Networking Lunch when you register. Mind Matching has reached capacity and is no longer accepting registrations.

Hotel Reservations are Open

CCN has negotiated special rates with several local hotels. Book your Accomodations early to ensure availability. Be aware of cancellation policies.

Submissions are Closed

CCN 2025 features two parallel submission tracks: a long Proceedings track (8 pages) and a short Extended Abstract track (2 pages), see Call for Papers.  Submissions for both tracks are now closed.  CCN has received 508 2-page submissions and 103 8-page submissions (a 21% increase over 2024).

2025 Keynote Speakers

About the Conference

CCN is an annual forum for discussion among researchers in cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, dedicated to understanding the computations that underlie complex behavior.  The conference began in 2017, with a goal to deepen interactions between these disciplines and to discover ways that the communities can benefit one another and leverage each other’s successes, articulated in this TICS commentary paper.

The conference is primarily single-track featuring keynote speakers and oral presentations.  Paper submissions are presented as posters with a few additionally selected for oral presentations. Community-proposed programming happens in single-track and parallel sessions, including "GACs", "K&Ts", and other community events. Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), are symposia designed to clarify theoretical debates and scaffold forward progress. Keynote-and-Tutorial presentations (K&Ts) foster science and skill-building, presenting cutting-edge science as a talk, followed by the code and a tutorial of how to execute those methods. Open events are designed to welcome all creative ideas for community building, skill building, science exchange, mentorship and career development.  We aspire to have an active, open, and responsive culture to meet the needs of this dynamic growing field.

We encourage participation from experimentalists and theoreticians investigating complex brain computations in humans and animals. CCN will draw researchers that address challenges including (and not limited to):

Understanding brain information processing underlying real-world tasks that involve natural stimuli, rich knowledge, complex inferences, and behavior

Measuring and expanding the representational competencies of modern AI systems

Understanding commonalities and differences between biological and artificial intelligent systems

Using techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to model brain information processing, and, conversely, incorporating neurobiological principles in machine learning and artificial intelligence

Mechanistic interpretability of deep neural network models and the science of deep learning

Revealing principles of brain connectivity and dynamics at multiple scales

Using psychophysical techniques to relate sensory inputs to behavioral responses

Developing cognitive- or neural-level models of perception, cognition, emotion, and action

Representation learning and representational alignment

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